The Ultimate Reason For Thanksgiving

Photo by Mary Vee
Western Michigan

HAPPY  THANKSGIVING!

Thanksgiving

Photo by Mary Vee

The entire book of Psalms is a song book used by the Hebrews to sing praise and thanksgivings to God. 

In our walk through the Bible, we have not yet read all the Psalms. 


Today lets read one of those Psalms:

Psalm 100

Make a joyful shout to the Lord, all you lands!

Serve the Lord with gladness;

Come before His presence with singing.

Know that the Lord, He is God;

It is He who has made us, and not we ourselves;

We are His people and the sheep of His pasture

Enter into His gates with thanksgiving,

And into His courts with praise.

Be thankful to Him, and bless His name.

For the Lord is good;

His mercy is everlasting,

And His truth endures to all generations.

God has blessed us with everything we need. We may want much more, but we have what we need. And many days we have many of the things we want!

I am thankful you come to read the Bible and missionary stories on this post and look forward to seeing you every Monday, Wednesday, and Saturday.

May God richly bless you and your family.

Thanksgiving Around the World

By Mary Vee

Thanksgiving is celebrated at different times around the world.  

Today I'd like to wish everyone around the world a Happy Thanksgiving. May God bless you and your family and show you His love in a special way.  God Loves Kids blog will continue posting Bible stories in kid and family friendly language. Stop by again to read a new Bible story.




 

 
Perhaps you didn't realize someone in another country is reading this blog at the same time or day as you.  


Each red circle on the map tells which country readers of this blog live.  I don't know who they are or anything else about them other than what country they're in when they read the blog. I am thankful for each one of you.

Can you think of a way to help someone from another country?  (girl from Alaska)

Perhaps pick another country and pray that God will help provide the people food, (children from India)

a place to live (home in Vietnam), 

and a friend to tell them about Jesus (children from Brazil)










Sometimes we can't go to another country to help people or tell them that God loves them and sent His son, Jesus, to die for their sins, but we can always pray. 

As you celebrate Thanksgiving in your country, try to remember kids from another country and pray for them.

Happy Thanksgiving!

Love,

Mrs. Vee

Chris Fabry's Thanksgiving Visit

By Mary Vee

I am thankful for Christian writers. My bookshelves are filled with kid, tween, teen, women, and men's fiction in addition to tons of nonfiction books.  I love reading books!

Christian writers have problems just like us. Today's guest, Chris Fabry wants to tell you about something that happened to him.  Chris Fabry has written many books for kids and teens. I asked him to join us today and share a Thanksgiving moment.  He shared this special story:

Please welcome Chris Fabry author of:

Christian teen and kid series

I had a dream to write when I was young, but I had no idea I could actually pay some bills doing it.



Then I met Jerry Jenkins at Moody Bible Institute. He said, “I can help you do this if you want, but it’ll be painful.”



Boy, was it ever. But I learned a lot and eventually Jerry and Dr. Tim LaHaye allowed me to team with them to help write the Left Behind: The Kids series. 40 books in all (I only wrote 36).




Fast forward to this year. My son, Colin, is 10. He has type 1 diabetes. It’s been an uphill health battle for the whole family after exposure to toxic mold.



Colin and his siblings couldn’t read—their eyes were affected by the toxic exposure. I can remember Kaitlyn crying because she couldn’t focus on the words. Now she’s finishing Christy Miller books faster than I can eat a slice of beef jerky.

 

Colin started reading the Left Behind: The Kids series and got hooked. In that series, Dr. LaHaye gave us one instruction. Make each book contain a believable conversion of a young person so anyone picking it up can see what it means to give your heart to Christ.

Colin came to me after about book three. “I did it, Dad.”

“You did what? Finished another book?”

“No, I prayed and asked Jesus into my heart.”



You can’t imagine the thrill of that, knowing that something we had worked on years ago was still bearing fruit, still having an impact.

I’d love to have a bestseller some day. But I love impacting readers on a heart level no matter if it’s one million or just one. Especially when that one is my own son.

Happy thanksgiving,

Chris Fabry

You can check out Chris Fabry's books

 at his website:   Chrisfabry.com

Here are some of his books:

What message would you like to leave Chris Fabry?